The best team money could buy

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/joe_posnanski/11/05/yankees.payroll/index.html

by aaron4411 • 17 years ago

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bdittmer• 17 years ago

Heh, I was just arguing with a friend who claimed that the Yankees winning was one of the few "successes" of capitalism this year. I quickly pointed out how inefficient they are as a team (using payroll/championships as the metric) and what they accomplished can hardly be considered a success.

balding_n_tired• 17 years ago

And how is this to be corrected? The LA market is pretty huge, but Angelenos seem to have many things to distract them from sports. Chicago is a big market, and there was a stretch when one of the ownership groups was rolling in cable money, but that never produced a win.

Maybe we could force the Yankees to sell to Dan Snyder, the Washington Redskins' owner? He seems to reproduce many of the traits that George Steinbrenner brought, once upon a time, to destroying the Yankees' efficiency.

smcnally• 17 years ago

we should also punish google and apple and microsoft and oracle for spending too much money to achieve success. jerks.

The best team money could buy

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